Hello! I’m Sharon, and I create and perform under my name, and sometimes under the name Counterfeit Madison.

I'm a pianist, composer, vocalist, arranger, and bandleader.

I, in this body, make music to communicate with other bodies, souls, and spirits, whether it's a string trio, a men's chorus,
a dancer, or just myself.

I'm an emotional person and love communicating those emotions and forming relationships, and that's what being here is all about, right—trying to make sense of all these relationships (or the lack thereof, which is also a relationship).

For me, I'm always trying to make sense of my relationships to my loves, my lovers,
my exes, my queerness, my Blackness,
my womanhood, my father, my mother,
my father's country, my mother's God…

The older I’ve gotten the more I've realized I'm probably better at communicating with music than with English!
With music, I can be vast, vigorous, versatile, and violent.

Long after I left the church of my youth, music has become a place of worship,
and has been my salvation many times over.